We all have that person, the first name we think of when we see our phone vibrate. The person whose name we long to see on the screen before we can tell ourselves not to. The face that flashes before our eyes before we can even think to wish it away. Some of us are lucky enough to be married or dating that person and to you I say congratulations, truly. But what of us who do not have that luxury, do not even really keep in contact with this person, not until today, when finally the miracle happens that we can match the face in our heads to the one who is contacting...but it's over snapchat.
Snap chat is the absolute worst. It is the technological equivalent to the douchebag head nod. It requires no words, just a subtle and tiny gesture. Not enough. The snap chat is a non committal attempt at contact. In terms of dating communication it is the worst. The perfect example of too little too late. We have no idea how many people got the same message so therefore no idea how to properly respond, if to respond at all. Selfie? Nope obnoxious. Picture of what you're doing at work or school or on your day off? My life is not interesting to look at, believe me I'm looking at it right now. No way of knowing if the person sent it on accident or as part of 'their story' and therefore to every single person they know. Their grandmother may have gotten this snap and you'll never know. There are enough avenues In dating that make you feel rejected, confused, and overwhelmed, we don't need one more. If snap chat were dating it would be Tindr. It is the absolute worst.
So to you, shy sweet girl still in love with your ex, or to you, innocent boy who loves the girl next door in his town but has never spoken to her because of your warring families, snap chat is not the thing to use. If anyone you would like to see slightly less clothed contacts you over snap chat, pretend it didn't happen and go to sleep. Then proceed to wake up and obsess over what on earth that picture of his left shoe might have meant. Probably nothing more than that he was wearing those shoes that day. But he needed you to know. Take solace in that if nothing else.